Sal. Oppenheim Signs IT Outsourcing Contract Extension With EDS
August 06 2008 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Delivery quality and successful collaboration key factors for
five-year contract extension PLANO, Texas, Aug. 6
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS today announced that Sal. Oppenheim
jr. & Cie., Europe's leading private bank, has extended its
information technology (IT) outsourcing contract with EDS for five
years. The contract extension covers the management of Sal.
Oppenheim's existing IT infrastructure at all locations. Since
1997, EDS has managed and operated the entire Sal. Oppenheim IT
infrastructure. "We have placed our IT in EDS' hands for more than
10 years," said Siegfried Grohs, managing director product services
& operations at Sal. Oppenheim. "As a bank, it is extremely
important to have an IT partner that secures the reliability of our
processes and transactions." EDS is responsible for managing
workplace services at Sal. Oppenheim, which includes local employee
support, voice, video and information services for more than 2,200
users. EDS will also continue to manage Sal. Oppenheim's
information storage, servers and mainframe computers, as well as
the company's communications network. Services also cover IT
procurement, housing and services for terminal servers, document
management and the bank's SAP human resources system. "Sal.
Oppenheim's decision to extend its agreement with EDS confirms our
excellent collaboration and our successful relationship as business
allies," said Jens-Uwe Holz, EDS regional vice president for EMEA
Central. "I am certain that we will continue to make an important
contribution to Sal. Oppenheim's success." Several EDS Agility
Alliance partners will provide services to Sal. Oppenheim as a part
of this agreement. The EDS Agility Alliance is a coalition of
companies globally recognized for their quality, products and value
to clients. Its mission is to innovate, develop and deliver the EDS
Agile Enterprise Platform -- EDS' next-generation global delivery
system. Together, EDS and its Agility Alliance partners collaborate
to design, build and run a market-leading services platform and
develop technology-based services to deliver tangible client
results. EDS Agility Alliance partners include Cisco, EMC,
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems and Xerox. Some 25,000 EDS
employees work on finance-related projects for about 200 customers
in 30 countries for clients such as ABN Amro, Aon, Bank of Canada,
Bank of Queensland, la Caixa, CIBC, Commonwealth Bank Group, KBC,
Korea First Bank, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland, Societe
Generale, Visa and Westpac. About Sal Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Sal.
Oppenheim jr. & Cie. is the largest independent private bank in
Europe, with supervisory equity of euro 2.2 billion and total
assets of euro 41.1 billion. Since being founded in 1789, the bank
has been owned by the family. The focus of operations at Sal.
Oppenheim is asset management and investment banking. The Asset
Management division services private and institutional investors.
In Investment Banking the core competencies are in the areas of
Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.
(http://www.oppenheim.de/). About EDS EDS is a leading global
technology services company delivering business solutions to its
clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing
industry more than 46 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad
portfolio of information technology and business process
outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial
services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and
consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world.
Learn more at http://www.eds.com/. CONTACTS: Annabelle Baxter --
EDS Corinna Stoff -- EDS Germany 972 605 0978 06142/80-3507
DATASOURCE: EDS CONTACT: Annabelle Baxter of EDS, +1-972-605-0978,
, or Corinna Stoff of EDS Germany, 06142-80-3507, Web site:
http://www.eds.com/ http://www.oppenheim.de/
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